List of people associated with the California gold rush
This is a selected list of people associated with the California gold rush. People listed here should be known to have been in Northern California during the period from 1848 to 1864.
- Samuel Brannan
- Frederick Catherwood
- Charles Crocker
- John C. Frémont
- John White Geary
- Domingo Ghirardelli
- Daniel Govan
- Ulysses Grant
- Frank James
- James Lick
- James Marshall
- Richard Barnes Mason
- Isaac Murphy
- Joshua Norton
- William Tecumseh Sherman
- Leland Stanford
- Levi Strauss
- John Sutter
- Mark Twain
- Maríano Guadalupe Vallejo